John Wyver writes: At the weekend I enjoyed Ad Astra, the new sci-fi film with Brad Pitt directed by James Gray. It's an intelligent, interior tale with strong action sequences and exquisite visuals courtesy of DoP Hoyte van Hoytema. more
To start Sunday links, this... • My vote: Roger Angell for The New Yorker. ... and this... • The road ahead: Kirk Douglas for The Huffington Post. ... and this, from Joss Whedon and friends (which you'll have seen but which is more
One of the many things that surprises me about the loose critical consensus about contemporary cinema is that Andrew Dominik's 2007 film The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford is not widely hailed as one of the masterpieces more